Unlike the few people I normally converse politically with, before today I didn't feel a burning desire to put Nair in Nancy Pelosi's shampoo, or rend her deaf because she's already dumb, or send her to an obscure Afgahni province where the native men have a penchant for old ladies enough "Anti Aging" foundation to cover the San Fran tranny population twice. Today I'm tempted to change my mind. In an attempt to, I'm sure, "humanize" Mrs. Pelosi, they've really just made her become more public about her elitist life style and arrogant attitude. I have no issue with what the woman eats or doesn't eat for breakfast, why it's even news baffles me further. My beef is with the copious hypocrisy everything in this article (and really magazine, because hey Al Gore is on the cover) represents.
The way I see modern liberalism is this: Those who call themselves "liberal" are most generally concerned with the health, welfare, and rights of those around them in universal, all men are inherently entitled and I'm-going-to-make-damn-sure-of-it-if-it-kills-you kinda way. Frankly, my view is that some people have made such disrepair of their lives, relationships, and finances that they assume such chaos is normal and everyone must be in need of the same kind of rescue they are. Some of us can actually pull ourselves up by our boot (or 3 inch peep toe red patent heel, thank you) straps and rely on only our God, our family, and ourselves to pick up the pieces. The way I see it, self proclaimed liberals want equality of opportunity and the right to choose whichever belief a person hold dear...unless it's the particular one they disagree with and then it's crap. Hypocrisy, party of 10 million.
Nancy Pelosi seems to fit my mold as well as she fits into her custom made Michael Kors, Prada, and Manolos. She wishes to legislate every woman's right to choose and grant that particular freedom, yet deny me the choice to believe that homosexuality is wrong. The woman eats ice cream for breakfast, yet won't let her staff take the elevators. She spouts fountains of welfare and free health care, gives my tax dollars away to every Jose, Amir, and Jamal (face the facts, the wide majority of those receiving government benefits that aren't seniors are minorities and immigrants, medicare.gov) and yet demands private jets, "elitist ice cream", and a staff to cater to her every need. Keep in mind, she's not on any committees, doesn't participate in debates on the floor, and doesn't vote on legislation. What part of her day exactly requires that she need a staff full of people to wait on her hand and foot? I'm on my feet 8-10 hours a day teaching the scourge of the earth (13 year olds) how to differentiate between transitive and intransitive verbs-someone get ME a bowl of chocolate ice cream!
You simply cannot espouse the ideas of liberalism, of giving chunks of what you earn in order to support the common good, yet sit around and eat "elitist ice cream". Shouldn't you be giving a third of that expensive ice cream to your staff? Not.how.it.works. If you believe it, you had better live it, especially if you're in the public eye., especially if you're Speaker of the freaking House of Representatives and third in command to control this country. Unless of course you believe you're in the upper echelon, and if that's true, you're a communist and last time I checked, the East Germans didn't get to eat chocolate ice cream. Correct yourself all you'd like, Madame Speaker, but I heard you loud and clear.
I hope you spill that ice cream all over your wool cashmere blend double breasted Chanel in winter white, and have to get the stain out YOURSELF!
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/04/nancy-pelosi-eats-ice-cream-for-breakfast.aspx
